Description: Gilt brass, front wound verge fusee movement (46.7mm diameter). Tall Egyptian pillars. Lacking everything but the fusee and the main spring barrel. Would have had a big highly decorated cock with small balance spring tension regulator and a white enamelled copper dial. Relic of a very early onion type of movement.
Additional Info:
Abraham Yver (Hyver or Yuer, 1620 – 1680), the head of what will become one of the most influential watchmaker families in northers France. In the ‘Memoire sur la Généralité de Limoges’ published in 1698 one can read, that the Yver family from Angoulême had greatest reputation among Royals and in the cities Saintes, Blois, Poitiers and others. All family members were protestants and there were ties with watchmakers in Blois. Ten members of the Yver family are listed as working in Angoulême between 1670 and 1783.
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